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Looking Out/Looking in: Interpersonal Communication

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This is the most user-friendly text for an introductory interpersonal communication class I've come across in my 10 year teaching career. The writing is as engaging as textbooks get, and the lay-out, graphics, and marginalia are first rate. Ron Adler and Neal Towne update this text frequently and it is full of references to current research if you wanted to explore any of the topics in more detail. Many of my students have told me that they would be keeping their copies rather than selling them back to the campus bookstore. One middle-aged woman had convinced her college-aged son to read it to help him better understand why he was having difficulties with personal and professional relationships. If you want a suppemental text to whatever you've been assigned, or if you just want an accessible introduction to the field of interpersonal communication, this is your book!

When I started using this book in 1978, I could never have dreamed the impact it would have on my students. Now, as director of my own private school in another country it has become even more powerful as a tool to help teach English as well as communication skills in the native language. Through the excersises and discussions, students learn to communicate bi-lingually more effectively...much more effectively. In its 9th edition, it has become a standard, a classic and, for me and my students, a necessity.

I just finished my Communications class and used this book to give a presentation and write a paper on communication and how to do it right. I felt the book was very educational. It certainly taught me quite a bit, despite the fact that I couldn't really read it (I used it for research). It was on loan from my teacher, but I plan to buy this book for myself. Heck, I'll probably have my husband read it too!

This is a very nice introductionary book that justly exhaust various topics. Pros: Easy to read, and unoffensive to the readers' intelligence. Many examples, diagrams, summaries, and concatenations between the chapters are well done. Great examples. This text refers to the Hardcover edition.